Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?

The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts